These are the institutions meant for confining persons sentenced to undergo imprisonment above 6 months and to lodge the detenues, prisoners convicted by court martial and the civil prisoners. Remand / Under Trial prisoners are also accommodated in central prisons, if the nearby sub jails are overcrowded. There are 3 Central Prison & Correctional Home, situated at Thiruvananthapuram, Viyyur and Kannur.

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